A blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill-founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW. A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading.

'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'

Friday, 10 May 2013

Children and Carbon Dioxide: don't let the zealots terrorise one by demonising the other.

'Of all of the world's chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation
than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonisation of this
natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control
of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is
that it is a dangerous pollutant. That's simply not the case. Contrary
to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by
increasing agricultural productivity.

The cessation of observed global warming for the past decade or so
has shown how exaggerated NASA's and most other computer predictions of
human-caused warming have been—and how little correlation warming has
with concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As many scientists
have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better
with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and
atmosphere. There isn't the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide
has caused more extreme weather.'

'Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S.
senator from New Mexico. Mr. Happer is a professor of physics at
Princeton University and a former director of the office of energy
research at the U.S. Department of Energy.'

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Observed and Expected Temperatures

Scafetta Model
This displays a forecast made by Scafetta using a simple model combining various cycles which have been observed in temperatures, together with some 'adjustment for global warming'. His forecast has the light blue background. An IPCC 2007 'projection' is shown with a green background. The bold red-then-blue line is the HadCRUT calculation of a global mean temperature, with blue line connecting the most recent results. (Source: Tallbloke's blog). A 2016 paper by Scafetta: http://www.iieta.org/sites/default/files/Journals/HTECH/IJHT.34.S2_35.pdf